(Mom)
Today little mans Milrinone was weaned by half. Nitric is down to 10. Vent pressures are down as well. Tonight they are starting him on Digoxin (sp?)based on the echo he had this evening. This does much the same as the Milrinone but it is an oral agent as opposed to administered thru his PICC line.
Dr P today said during rounds that "It took Drayke 5 months to get as bad as he was, it is going to take 5 months to get him to where he needs to be". Dad asked "Does this mean he will be here for all that time?". The doc replied with "oh no, he will be home before that. He is just going to be on some meds and maybe some additional support but should be able to go home.
"Home! 3 weeks ago being told Drayke was not going to make it to now potentially being able to go home within 2-3 months!
With all the lowered support his oxygen saturation is still in the high 90s to 100 range. We are probably going to be getting a trach & g-tube put in sometime within the next 30 days.
Tonight is also the final dose of his second series of steroids. Thank the gods. He is lil mister grumpy man on steroids. It also has raised his blood pressure a bit but his latest reading at 7:30PM was 89/38(51) which is SO much better than earlier today.
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on this day Corbin was brought into the world. im glad we got to meet you guys. we love yall, and hope your doing well!
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